The IcedTea project provides a harness to build the source code from OpenJDK6 using Free Software build tools, along with additional features such as a PulseAudio sound driver and support for alternative virtual machines.

A new set of releases is now available for IcedTea6, which uses OpenJDK6 as its base:

IcedTea6 1.10.7 (based on OpenJDK6 b22)

IcedTea6 1.11.2 (based on OpenJDK6 b24)

Full details of each release can be found below.

PLEASE NOTE: With this release, the 1.9 series is now NO LONGER SUPPORTED, in a general push to reduce the release support burden to two releases per JDK release (6, 7, 8). We strongly recommend that you upgrade to a new release series; either of the two above for OpenJDK6. Alternatively, make the jump to OpenJDK7 with 2.0.1, 2.1.0 or 2.2.0 (to be released shortly).